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Love is Blind
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Love in the Garden
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| Sound recording, story; Love is Blind or Love in the Garden, a Columbian folk tale and apocryphal tale, told by Ben Haggarty, as part of the programme Beauty and the Beast with other Tales of Lovers of the Rose, in a mini-festival of stories, Journeys of the Heart, programmed by the Crick Crack Club and Barbican Education, in the Pit Theatre, Barbican Centre, London, 14th February 2007. | |
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| Introduction by Master of Ceremonies Jillian Barker to the performance, followed by introduction and story told by Ben Haggarty. A story set in the garden of Eden after God had created the Earth, but before he created Man. As God rests, emotions run wild in the garden and have a game of hide and seek, resulting in love being blinded and hence forth being guided by madness. | |
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| Programme note reads - Join us on Valentine's Day to find out what really happened in that fairytale forest where the merchant lost his way. Acclaimed storyteller, Ben Haggarty joins forces with cellist/composer Sherry Robinson, to tell a seemingly familiar story in a powerful new way. This brooding multi-layered version of a very ancient tale will creep into your waking dreams and haunt you with its beauty...just as it has countless generations of our ancesters. This is a programme full of dark love stories and music: romantic, rich full of exquisite joy and pain. | |
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| audience:- | adult |
| recording quality | |
| condition:- | good |
| completeness:- | complete |
| duration:- | 0 hours, 10 minutes, 10 seconds |
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| In 2003, Jillian Barker, Head of Education at the Barbican Centre, London, approached Ben Haggarty, Artistic Director of the Crick Crack Club, with a proposal to programme regular performance storytelling at the Barbican Centre. Since 2003 the Crick Crack Club has worked in partnership with Barbican Education to programme 9 events a year in the Barbican Pit Theatre, for adult audiences. These events are programmed during the three school half terms each year, with usually three evening events per half term. The performances of storytelling are occasionally preceded by pre-show talks. The Pit Theatre is an award winning black box theatre, which seats approximately 180 people (depending on the seating configuration). | |
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| storytelling:- |
storyteller: Ben Haggarty male / British / born 30.11.1958 |
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| storytelling:- |
Master of Ceremonies: Jillian Barker female / British / occupation Educationalist; Head of Barbican Education |
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| origin:- | Columbia |
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| programming & administration:- |
programmer; Crick Crack Club Artistic Director: Ben Haggarty programmer: The Crick Crack Club administrator; programmer: The Barbican Centre; Barbican Education |
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London, England: The Barbican Centre: The Pit Theatre
14 Feb 2007 mini-festival; public performance: Journeys of the Heart Beauty and the Beast with other Tales of Lovers o |
| gift from:- |
The Barbican Centre |
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